Monkeys
of Ethiopia
A shaggy male gelada pauses during his morning ascent
from a cliff above East Africa’s Great Rift Valley. Hundreds of
the world’s only grass-eating monkeys thrive on this plateau
in the central Ethiopian Highlands, where villagers for
centuries have protected the vegetation.
A protected savanna helps ‘bleeding
heart’ geladas thrive—for now.
The Grass-Eating